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Tam Cowan’s Motherwell Dream Team


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I guess its personal choice and all a bit of fun, but Joe Wark at right back. Seriously? Bad enough the great man never won a Scotland cap, but not making a Motherwell fans greatest ever 11 in his natural position is beyond the pale! 

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Looking at Tams team, its clearly all guys he saw play, which is fair enough, as its always difficult to compare players of different generations. But given that Im the same age as him, I reckon either of my teams would scud his!

                         Sieb

   Nijholt Krivokapic Martin Wark

McFadden Lambert Russell Cooper

            Graham Pettigrew

 

                      Randolph

Corrigan McCart Craigan McKinnon

McCormack POD McAllister Murphy

                 Arnott Coyne

Notable mentions to Ally Maxwell, George Burley, Shaun Hutchison, Stevie Hammell, Vic Davidson, David Turnbull, Peter Marinello, Higdon, Sutton, Moult & KVV.

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Tam solidifies his complete lack of footballing knowledge with his selections and positions.

anyway out of his bunch, I’d only agree with pettigrew, odonnell and cooper 

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Just now, mio said:

Tam solidifies his complete lack of footballing knowledge with his selections and positions.

anyway out of his bunch, I’d only agree with pettigrew, odonnell and cooper 

And wark…. Forgot about Joe 

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7 minutes ago, well_said said:

I can only assume the Boyd he has picked is Jim Boyd who we signed from clyde in 1978 and not that two faced snake bastard Tom that played a few games for us.

 

I was delighted when I watched Tom Boyd lift the Scottish Cup.

Could not care less what he said or did after that, and certainly don't get offended by anything a footballer says. They are not typically blessed with deep insight or even common sense.

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In my tenure watching the club, the players who've brought me most joy watching would be:

Randolph

Corrigan     Craigan     Martin        Hammell

Lambert

McFadden                                 Ojamaa

Turnbull

Moult       Arnott

Subs: Ruddy, Hateley, Hutchinson, Law, Pearson, McDonald, Higdon

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1 hour ago, weeyin said:

 

I was delighted when I watched Tom Boyd lift the Scottish Cup.

Could not care less what he said or did after that, and certainly don't get offended by anything a footballer says. They are not typically blessed with deep insight or even common sense.

The main thing about Boyd that upsets Motherwell fans is that when he talks about his career it started when he signed for Celtic, the Fir park years and the 91 Cup final have been erased from his memory and its got worse over the years. As has been stated previously hes an obnoxious tosser.

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I’m going with the old 2-3-5 set Up and not a lot of thought and even less memory 😳

                          Randolph

              Watson               Wark

Aitken           W. McCallum     McCart

Marinello Hunter Pettigrew Graham Cooper

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I'm it's interesting seeing everyone's list I'm a bit younger and my best 11 would only go back 16-17 years so I feel mine would look so out of place here compared to some of you guys. I'm also fond of a hard worker or cult hero ask my friend who gets the fear when I mention some of who I think some of the better players we've had are.

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52 minutes ago, Spiderpig said:

The main thing about Boyd that upsets Motherwell fans is that when he talks about his career it started when he signed for Celtic, the Fir park years and the 91 Cup final have been erased from his memory and its got worse over the years. As has been stated previously hes an obnoxious tosser.

I get it. I just don't care enough to be bothered. It reflects poorly on him, but not on my Cup Final memories.

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Sieb 

nigholt krivokapic Martin wark

mcfadden Odonnell Graham cooper

pettigrew coyne 

subs

Brian McLaughlin, arnott, mcallister, rab mckinnon lambert.

there’s loads more good players I can think of but would have loved to see how much creation we would have with Graham and cooper feeding both coyne and pettigrew.

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4 hours ago, Throughthelaces said:

I'm also fond of a hard worker or cult hero ask my friend who gets the fear when I mention some of who I think some of the better players we've had are.

This is the thing with this kind of list. Is is Best or Favourite? Is Boyd better than McKinnon and Hammell? Possibly (although I think there's a case to be made McKinnon was better) but Boyd's post Motherwell dismissive attitude towards us probably encourages people to pick others ahead of him... Krivokapic and Martin are two of the best defenders we've had in my time watching Motherwell but I have more a fondness for Nijholt and Aldred. It's an impossible task to be even handed about it...

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Randolph

Corrigan     Hutchinson     Aldred        Hammell

POD

McFadden                                 Murphy

 Ojamaa

McCormack      Higdon

I didn't start attending games till 2000s 

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14 minutes ago, MelvinBragg said:

This is the thing with this kind of list. Is is Best or Favourite? Is Boyd better than McKinnon and Hammell? Possibly (although I think there's a case to be made McKinnon was better) but Boyd's post Motherwell dismissive attitude towards us probably encourages people to pick others ahead of him... Krivokapic and Martin are two of the best defenders we've had in my time watching Motherwell but I have more a fondness for Nijholt and Aldred. It's an impossible task to be even handed about it...

McKinnon was one of my all time favourite players, I can remember Joe Wark but not great memories seeing him.

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20 minutes ago, MelvinBragg said:

This is the thing with this kind of list. Is is Best or Favourite? Is Boyd better than McKinnon and Hammell? Possibly (although I think there's a case to be made McKinnon was better) but Boyd's post Motherwell dismissive attitude towards us probably encourages people to pick others ahead of him... Krivokapic and Martin are two of the best defenders we've had in my time watching Motherwell but I have more a fondness for Nijholt and Aldred. It's an impossible task to be even handed about it...

I agree like for me in my time Hartley and McHugh make my list as well as Hammel. For me Hartley is probably the best player I think I've seen at Motherwell. I acknowledge we had aldred who was fantastic in his own right shortly after Hartley. But the pair couldn't play well together.

 

I think welas the 13/14 season I started coming regularly to games so my reference point isn't as broad as some. But I do favour the hard workers so I find these types of posts interesting 

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29 minutes ago, Throughthelaces said:

I agree like for me in my time Hartley and McHugh make my list as well as Hammel. For me Hartley is probably the best player I think I've seen at Motherwell. I acknowledge we had aldred who was fantastic in his own right shortly after Hartley. But the pair couldn't play well together.

 

I think welas the 13/14 season I started coming regularly to games so my reference point isn't as broad as some. But I do favour the hard workers so I find these types of posts interesting 

What do you mean by hard worker? 

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7 hours ago, Spiderpig said:

The main thing about Boyd that upsets Motherwell fans is that when he talks about his career it started when he signed for Celtic, the Fir park years and the 91 Cup final have been erased from his memory and its got worse over the years. As has been stated previously hes an obnoxious tosser.

Totally.

But by the same token he isnt even in our top 3 left backs.

So not for me.

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